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In VR-Zone, it's 6W difference but the PowerTune slider is set at +20%Quote:
Originally Posted by -=DVS=-
http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-rade.../10474-11.html
+20% for the 250W default for 6970 is 300W ceiling, so worst case is its drawing 50W more, so its anywhere from 6 - 56W lower. Wish they did a friggin chart w/o powertune on
So far, very disappointing performance.
I suggest all of you just close eyes on all those reviews, and wait till reviewers will have latest drivers (8.801+)
ATI needs more time to work on the drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by ichime
After benchmarkreview's little oped piece
I have a hard time taking them seriously /sigh
ATI takes a lot of time to work on the drivers ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by safan80
That said, they do improve... look at Vantage 5870 scores at release to today... huuuugge increase. And for that matter, since 480's release, they've managed to creep up as well
The 6970 card runs slower than the GTX 580 and runs hotter than the GTX 580? WTF?
ATI really messed up here.
So far VERY disappointing. Was ready to buy a new video card today. Thanks for pissing away a 1 year lead, ATI.
Holding out hope that this is some kind of fubar where some of the sites got 'crippled' drivers, but even in that case AMD is screwing up the launch.
I think I'm going to make it a rule to only trust the reviews that use the same powertune settings for the benchmarks and the power consumption figures....
*EDIT* To all the people complaining about temperatures, you have to consider the fan speeds. The power consumption of the 6900 series is lower than that of the 500 series across the board, so they necessarily run cooler at the same cooling capacity.
Hotter isn't a big deal if it's the fan speed, which is apparently set really low, which of course, those reviews managed to neglectQuote:
Originally Posted by Chrono Detector
Look at the games being benched... some of them are picking some very Nvidia-heavy games to bench (HAWX2, Lost Planet 2 for example)Quote:
Originally Posted by hurleybird
Gonna go ahead and sum up what games will do what right now at 2560x1600
Games that will be Nvidia wins:
Lost Planet 2
HAWX 2
Battleforge
Games that will be AMD wins:
F1 2010
Games that will be neck and neck:
Crysis
Resident Evil 5
Games that will show immense improvement for 6970 over 5870:
Stalker:CoP
Dirt 2 (minimum FPS)
Metro 2033
This reminds me of the 480 launch... performance was all over the place due to the new architecture and differences between DX11 and legacy hardware games
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/202/5...02eb32b341.jpg
/happy with my 6850, this thing is very much fail so far
Do we know for a fact that the new 8.801 driver or an upcoming driver increase performance enough to make up for its current shortcomings?
No way, is that a driver developer? :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnJohn
I just noticed this:
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...1&limitstart=3
The 6970 only has 1536 Stream Processors, and yet it's beating the 5870 (1600 SP) by a healthy margin. What happened to the 1920 SP monster we were hearing about???
I don't believe it. They disabled some of the SP's.
The HD 6970 is AMD's version of the GTX 480! :shocked:
How can you say hot at normal noise fan is ok when it would be noisy to oc when a 580 is not?
Unlikely to the extreme.Quote:
Originally Posted by kite7
Performance :confused: amd What happens
They disabled some of the SP's. 1536 on the 6970 vs. 1920 originally.Quote:
Originally Posted by cold2010
That's a 20% loss in SP's.
Not for the price of $369 which is cheaper than the price of the 5870 at newegg in a lot of casesQuote:
Originally Posted by Mad Pistol
But it's not the full spec card they were going to release. The 6970 only has 1536 SP's!Quote:
Originally Posted by safan80
That leaves room for a 6990! :shrug:
fudzilla.com review is up , didn't know they made reviews :p:
Something interesting i noticed 69xx suppose to have 2x tess power , we can see it in Heaven but what happened here ? maybe it's OpenGL thing.
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/8339/tessmark.jpg
Hardware Canucks Review :up:
EDIT:
*looks above* Damnit :P
Yet its performance is amazingly inconsistent, sometimes not much faster than the 5870, being upward of 35% slower @ 2560x1600 than a 580, while sometimes it's within 5% either way. Seems priced accurately, but can't imagine how noisy it will become when oc'ing since its stock fan for normal noise runs very hot per all the reviews thus far :(.Quote:
Originally Posted by safan80